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Janet Vertesi

@ErickaSimone Ooh actually i know where the planetary scientists are! They are trying to figure out if they're getting laid off by NASA this week or next; if they are going to be able to get to their big professional meeting in two weeks' time or if their travel has all been canceled and cut off; being mandated to change their pronouns in their email signatures and erase DEI from their records and job titles; and trying to figure out where to store the incredible datasets they've collected over seventy years of spaceflight. And that includes the ones whose houses burned down and the ones whose major lab and houses almost burned down, in the past month, and the 900 people laid off last year due to budget cuts! Also trying to explain to people that no, you can't just go to Mars! Woo!

@cyberlyra damn. Not Elon ruining my planetary alignment. 🙃

@cyberlyra most of this was on my radar already, except this line here, what is this bit in reference to?: “… the ones whose houses burned down and whose major lab and houses almost burned down…”